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Landfill Environmental Impact Studies

Landfill Environmental Impact Studies is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 18.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the long-term management of landfills, including topics such as landfill gas emissions, geosynthetic clay liners, methane oxidation processes, leachate recirculation, waste degradation, bioreactor landfills, hydraulic conductivity, municipal solid waste characteristics, landfill mining, and the use of geomembranes for containment.

  • Landfill Gas
  • Geosynthetic Clay Liners
  • Methane Oxidation
  • Leachate Recirculation
  • Waste Degradation
  • Bioreactor Landfills
  • Hydraulic Conductivity
  • Municipal Solid Waste
  • Landfill Mining
  • Geomembranes
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
18.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+39%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (660 and 368 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 660 works
  2. 2 India 368 works
  3. 3 United States 199 works
  4. 4 Brazil 98 works
  5. 5 Iran 89 works
  6. 6 Canada 88 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 73 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 70 works
  9. 9 Japan 63 works
  10. 10 Iraq 53 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 37.5%India: 20.9%United States: 11.3%Brazil: 5.5%6 others listed: 24.8%37%largest
China660 · 37.5%India368 · 20.9%United States199 · 11.3%Brazil98 · 5.5%6 others listed436 · 24.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Tongji University publishes the most Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research, followed by Zhejiang University and Queen's University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 27 works
  2. 2 Zhejiang UniversityChina 26 works
  3. 3 Queen's UniversityCanada 25 works
  4. 4 Hohai UniversityChina 19 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 13 works
  6. 6 Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiIndia 12 works
  7. 7 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 12 works
  8. 8 Institute of Rock and Soil MechanicsChina 10 works
  9. 9 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 10 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Landfill Environmental Impact Studies include Yong Sik Ok and Tejraj M. Aminabhavi.

  1. 1 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 3.3k citations
  2. 2 Tejraj M. Aminabhavi India 2.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research done?

The largest centres of Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Hangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kingston.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 87 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 59 works
  3. 3 Hangzhou China 57 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 53 works
  5. 5 Wuhan China 39 works
  6. 6 Tehran Iran 36 works
  7. 7 Xi'an China 34 works
  8. 8 Kingston Canada 27 works
  9. 9 Chennai India 24 works
  10. 10 Baghdad Iraq 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KingstonCA · 26.9 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Landfill Environmental Impact Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Landfill Environmental Impact Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Tongji University, Queen's University and University of Illinois Chicago score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 17.16%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Tongji University: 27, 18.7%Queen's University: 25, 5.7%University of Illinois Chicago: 8, 41.5%Hohai University: 19, 8.9%Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology: 10, 28.6%Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati: 12, 9.6%Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee: 10, 13.6%Southeast University: 13, 19.8%Zhejiang University: 26, 12.8%Indian Institute of Technology Madras: 9, 12.4%University of Illino…Tongji UniversityHohai UniversityQueen's University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Tongji UniversityChina 67.418.7%8.6×27 +112.9%
2 Queen's UniversityCanada 58.45.7%26.0×25 -20.6%
3 University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States 55.641.5%6.5×8 +62.9%
4 Hohai UniversityChina 54.68.9%13.8×19 +56.1%
5 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 53.828.6%12.7×10 —
6 Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiIndia 53.29.6%14.4×12 +326.9%
7 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 49.213.6%8.8×10 +571.4%
8 Southeast UniversityChina 47.719.8%4.0×13 +188.4%
9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 45.912.8%5.4×26 -8.2%
10 Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia 45.412.4%7.8×9 +222.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Landfill Environmental Impact Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 39% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Landfill Environmental Impact Studies.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.